Rousso v. First Nat. Bank in Detroit

HICKENDOOPER, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in the instant case is whether the doctrine of Morgan v. Daniels, 153 U. S. 120, 125, 14 S. Ct. 772, 773, 38 L. Ed. 657, “that, where the question decided in the patent office is one between contesting parties as to priority of invention, the decision there made must be accepted as controlling upon that' question of fact in any subsequent suit between the same parties, unless the contrary is established by testimony, which in character and amount carries thorough eonviction,” is to be applied in litigation between one of the parties to an…